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Steve from rockefeller in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight join jimmy and his guests, Keira Knightley. Chelsea clinton. Musical guest tame impala. And featuring the legendary roots crew and now heres your host, Jimmy Fallon Jimmy hey, everybody thank you so much for tuning in thanks for watching the tonight show. My names jimmy fallon and that is the roots right over there, ladies and gentlemen. Lets get to the news and jokes. Well, guys, the big story is still the Supreme Court, and today it looks like the republicans cleared an important hurdle senator lindsey graham, the chair of the Senate Judiciary committee, now says the republicans have the votes to confirm president trumps nominee to fill Justice Ginsburgs seat before the election, before they even know who the nominee is jimmy thats right 51 out of 53 republicans are now on board while the other two stick out like masks at a maga rally [ laughter ] thats right, the republicans are
Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and im the director of aspen digital. Were blunt glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can often seem to be a veneer of the National Psyche and this year it seems to reflect a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists, both fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest hashtag publishing pay me exposed the disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents and even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels and for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be sub optimal. This year of National Reckoning on racism were going to take a look at the industry, the book Publishing Industry and whether it can br
I am Vivian Schiller with the outfit institute. Glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can be a mirror of the National Psyche and this reflects a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books on matters of race and racism fill fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest amy, the pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack others. There are a few people of color who serve as publishing several literary agents and even fewer who operate at a decisionmaking level and for those who are published, the market exposure can be so awesome. At this year of National Reckoning on racism, we look at the book Publishing Industry and whether it can bring more racial diversity to the field. This is part of our changing the narrative series, issues of race through the media and one program on the news media and another program about the entertainment in
Chat. And again when we are planning this tour i cant wait to get into the conversation. And again this is not anything that we ever wouldve amended when we were all having or towards the end of last year but we are adaptable. We will take in that we know any of you are watching right now probably could not have physically gotten here tonight. But you can join us virtually. Again, i will reiterate. You should treat this is if you are in the bookstore. It when youre in the bookstore for reading, then you buy books. So please do that. And it would be great if they were debbies books. But really, buy a lot of books. You know by just one opening the bookstore coming by a lot of books. But i imagine debbie, needs no introduction. But i will just briefly say. I think was what is great if you look at her body of work, you see two very strong claims. Amongst the social justice and the theme of defining america and who gets to define america. She is dennis and looks like freedom summer and esse